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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. H. L. Mencken

Man Believe He Ape Average Descended Even Harder

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation. Patrick Henry

Government Great People Liberty Strong Made Country Glorious Become Nation Great Britain Our Everything Direct Splendid Because Forefathers End Sir Energetic Mighty Descended Whose Foundation Founded Britain

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Darwin

Man Habits Hairy Descended

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S. Alexis Ohanian

I've covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn't on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there. Brooke Baldwin

Natural Natural Disasters Gone Other Our Saw Entire Beach Exception Toward Town Disasters Still Covered Condo Mexico Just Helicopter Ground Standing Descended Katrina Leveled Here

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. Dario Fo

People Side State Types Way Circumstances Saddam Accept Affairs Iraq American Current Often Current State Happens Which Descended Why Level

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011. Dexter Filkins

Country Calm President Late President Bush Relative Soldiers Kind Pretty Combat Baghdad Until Forces Surge Left End American Ordered Bush Worked Much Held Descended Last

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon. Douglas Brinkley

Old Moon First Become Ladder Backpack Neil Only Armstrong Commander Years July Human Apollo Descended Eagle

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. Ferdowsi

Met Sides Given Between Armies Waged Were Arrows Blows Fierce Them Descended Showers Many Now Swords Received Two

Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it's the difference between a movement descended from George Wallace and one that harks back to Barry Goldwater. Jacob Weisberg

Bible Constitution Seen Back Guided Between Terms Read George Western Historical Southern Wallace Difference Movement Republicans Descended Barry

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. James Prescott Joule

Distance Wound Through Had Weights Renew Yards Motion Up Order Again Height Paddle Ground Descended Twelve Consequently

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.' Jasmine Guinness

Out Find Delighted Were Descended Mum

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings. John Burroughs

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children. John Cornforth

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. Lytton Strachey

Genius Simplicity Language Single Unity Latin Clarity Restraint Triumphed Direction Most French French Language Stock Contrary Descended

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty. Malcolm Gladwell

People Anxiety World Remove Tried Uncertainty Economic Development Countries Obstacles Like Always Reduce Bank Organizations Descended World Bank Third Third World

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? Tina Brown

Future Chill Will Black Past Cloud Monday Other Risky Pursuit Investigations Rock How How Much Much Descended

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. Tom Ford

You Culture Remember Country Think Our Immigrants Composed Puritanical Puritans Pilgrims Very Begins America American Uptight Whether Landing Really View Descended Now Things

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